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Announcing the Google Code-in 2016 Winners!

Monday, January 30, 2017

Drum roll please! We are very proud to announce the 2016 Google Code-in (GCI) Grand Prize Winners and Finalists. Each year we see the number of student participants increase, and 2016 was no exception: 1,340 students from 62 countries completed an impressive 6,418 tasks. Winners and Finalists were chosen by the 17 open source organizations and are listed alphabetically below.

First is a list of our Grand Prize winners. These 34 teens completed an astounding 842 total tasks. Each Grand Prize winner will be flown to the Google campus for four days this summer to meet with Google engineers and enjoy the Bay Area.

GRAND PRIZE WINNERS

Name

Organization

Country

Matthew Marting

Apertium

United States

Shardul Chiplunkar

Apertium

United States

Michal Hanus

BRL-CAD

Czech Republic

Sudhanshu Agarwal

BRL-CAD

India

Alexandru Bratosin

CCExtractor Development

Romania

Evgeny Shulgin

CCExtractor Development

Russian Federation

Joshua Pan

Copyleft Games Group

United States

Shriank Kanaparti

Copyleft Games Group

India

Dhanat Satta-awalo

Drupal

Thailand

Utkarsh Dixit

Drupal

India

Kaisar Arkhan

FOSSASIA

Indonesia

Oana Roşca

FOSSASIA

Romania

Raefaldhi Amartya Junior

Haiku

Indonesia

Vanisha Kesswani

Haiku

India

Ilya Bizyaev

KDE

Russian Federation

Sergey Popov

KDE

Russian Federation

Anshuman Agarwal

MetaBrainz

India

Daniel Hsing

MetaBrainz

Hong Kong

Dhruv Shrivastava

Mifos

India

Sawan Kumar

Mifos

India

Ong Jia Wei, Isaac

Moving Blocks

Singapore

Scott Moses Sunarto

Moving Blocks

Indonesia

Mira Yang

OpenMRS

United States

Nji Collins

OpenMRS

Cameroon

Cristian García

Sugar Labs

Uruguay

Tymon Radzik

Sugar Labs

Poland

August van de Ven

SCoRe

Netherlands

Deniz Karakay

SCoRe

Turkey

Jacqueline Bronger

Systers

Germany

Soham Sen

Systers

India

Filip Grzywok

Wikimedia

Poland

Justin Du

Wikimedia

United States

Sampriti Panda

Zulip

India

Tommy Ip

Zulip

United Kingdom

And below are the Finalists. Each of these 51 students will receive a digital certificate of completion, a GCI t-shirt and hooded sweatshirt.

FINALISTS

Name

Organization

Bror Hultberg

Apertium

Kamil Bujel

Apertium

Ngadou Sylvestre

Apertium

Apratim Ranjan Chakrabarty

BRL-CAD

Tianyue Gao

BRL-CAD

Trung Nguyen Hoang

BRL-CAD

Danila Fedorin

CCExtractor Development

Manveer Basra

CCExtractor Development

Matej Plavevski

CCExtractor Development

Daniel Wee Soong Lim

Copyleft Games Group

Jonathan Pan

Copyleft Games Group

Oscar Belletti

Copyleft Games Group

Ashmith Kifah Sheik Meeran

Drupal

Heervesh Lallbahadur

Drupal

Neeraj Pandey

Drupal

Adarsh Kumar

FOSSASIA

Ridhwanul Haque

FOSSASIA

Sanchit Mishra

FOSSASIA

Dmytro Shynkevych

Haiku

Stephanie Fu

Haiku

Tudor Nazarie

Haiku

Harpreet Singh

KDE

Sangeetha S

KDE

Spencer Brown

KDE

Daniel Theis

MetaBrainz

Divya Prakash Mittal

MetaBrainz

Tigran Kostandyan

MetaBrainz

Illia Andrieiev

Mifos

Justin Du

Mifos

Tan Gemicioglu

Mifos

J Young Kim

Moving Blocks

Maxim Borsch

Moving Blocks

Quinn Roberts

Moving Blocks

Shivani Thaker

OpenMRS

Tenzin Zomkyi

OpenMRS

Yusuf Karim

OpenMRS

Emily Ong Hui Qi

Sugar Labs

Euan Ong

Sugar Labs

Pablo Salomón Ortega Quintana

Sugar Labs

Basil Najjar

SCoRe

Jupinder Parmar

SCoRe

Thuận Nguyễn

SCoRe

Muaaz Kasker

Systers

Muhammed Shamil K

Systers

Phoebe Fletcher

Systers

David Siedtmann

Wikimedia

Nikita Volobuev

Wikimedia

Yurii Shnitkovskyi

Wikimedia

Cynthia Lin

Zulip

Rafid Aslam

Zulip

Robert Hönig

Zulip

The Google Open Source Programs Office is proud to run this contest each year. The quality of work from our participating students is incredible, and each year we look forward to meeting our Grand Prize winners in person. It’s exciting to see the next generation of coders emerge! We also owe a huge debt of gratitude to all of the mentors who helped guide each of the participants through their tasks. Without their tireless work over the past 7 weeks, GCI would not be possible.

Stay tuned to the open source blog - we’ll regularly post Google Code-in 2016 stories in the upcoming months including a full breakdown of contest statistics, wrap-up posts from the organizations, student highlights and more.